Handle for furniture



(No Model.)

W. R. TAYLOR.

HANDLE FOR FURNITURE. No. 337,889. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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HANDLE FOR FURNITURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,889, dated March16, 1886.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM R. TAYLOR, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in FlushHandles; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to handles in general, but more especially to theclass of handles used upon heavy chests, packing-trunks, &c., and hasfor its object to provide a simple,durable, and inexpensive device ofthis class, in which the loop or hand-piece will be always held in itssocket, no matter in what position the chest or trunk may be placed.

It will of course be underst( 0d that the principle of my invention isequally applicable to furniture-handlesas, for example, upon bureau andother drawers, wherever, in fact, a spring flush handle may bedesirable. With this end in view I have devised the simple and novelconstruction of which the following description, in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification,.

numbers being used to indicate the several parts in the drawings Figure1 is a rear elevation of the handle detached; and Fig. 2 is a section onthe line 00 00, the loop or hand-piece being shown in elevation.

1 is the plate or bed-piece of the handle, which is provided with arecess or socket, 2, to receive the loop or hand-piece. Upon the back ofthe plate, above the recess or socket, a series of brackets, 3, havingholes through them, is provided. I have shown four of these brackets inthe drawings, and preferably use that number.

4 is the loop or hand-piece, provided at its upper end with lugs 5,which extend through apertures6in the top of the socket and throughapertures 7 in the plate, and are pivoted between the brackets.

In practice I provide the brackets with round holes 8, (see dotted linesin Fig. 2,) and provide the lugs with angular holes.

9 is an angular or square shaft or pintle, which is driven through theholes in the brack- I preferably make the pintle to fit tightly in theholes through the lugs, so that when the handle is lifted the shaft isturned with it, the holes through the brackets being large enough topermit the shaft to turn freely. It will be noticed in Fig. 2 that inthe act of lifting the lower sides of the lugs at their ends rest uponthe top of the socket and the upper sides of the lugs rest against theplate, so that in fact all strain is removed from the pintle or shaftand comes directly upon the handle, socket, and plate.

10 is a spring coiled loosely about the pintle, one end of which restsagainst the back of the socket, or is secured thereto in any suitablemanner, the other end being rigidly secured to the shaft or pintle. Theaction of this spring is to hold the loop or hand-piece within thesocket, so that in the act of lifting, as in Fig. 2, the handle islifted to the horizontal position against the power of this spring, andas soon as released the loop is instantly thrown back into the socket bysaid spring. This is a very important feature of construction, as itinsures that when in use the handpiece or loop will be held in thesocket, no matter in what position the chest or trunk may be placed.

Heretofore in this class of handles, especially those used upon veryheavy chests and trunks, it has been a serious objection that when thechests or trunks upon which they were used were thrown out of theirnormal position the handles would drop out of the sockets and would getbroken off in the rough handling to which they were subjected intransportation. This objection is wholly overcome by my improvement,which renders it practically impossible for the loops or handpieces toget broken off, as the springs will act to throw them back into thesockets the instant they are released after the act of lifting, and willhold them there, no matter how much the chest or trunk may be tumbledabout.

It will of course be understood that the details of construction are notessential features of my invention, and may be Varied within reasonablelimits without departing from the spirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim-- 1. In a flush handle, theplate having a ICO socket for the loop or hand-piece, and brackets 3, incombination with lugs 5 upon the hand-piece, shaft or pintle 9, and aspring coiled about said shaft or pintle, one end being attached theretoand the other to the plate, whereby the hand-piece is held in thesocket.

2. The plate having apertures 7, bracket-s 3, and socket 2, withapertures 6, in combination with the loop or hand-piece having lugs 5,

10 which project through said apertures, and are pivoted between thebrackets by pintle 9 and.

coil-spring 10, one end of which is held by the plate, the other by thepintle, whereby in 1ift-.

ing the strain is entirely upon the plate and top of socket, and whenreleased the hand-piece 1 5 is returned to the socket and held there.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM R. TAYLOR. Witnesses:

A. M. WoosTER, E. D. HOWELL.

